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How to Use Natural Lighting in Your Photography – A Simple Window Light Photo Tutorial
By Jay P. Morgan
In this video we will look at how to use window light as an effective light source to create portraits.
Window light is a natural light source that can create beautiful light for portraits in video and stills. It’s a quick light source that is controlled by the size of the window and the proximity of the subject to the window or light source. Large windows give softer light with brighter backgrounds and smaller windows give harder light with darker backgrounds. Its the same principle as soft boxes. Large boxes create soft light and small boxes create more directional light. We will look at window light as a back light, key light, or flat frontal light. In the process we will explore how skin tone and hair color effect the way we light. Combining someone with dark hair and olive skin and someone with fair skin and red hair creates a challenge. We will discuss how to overcome that challenge. Lets look at Window light as a light source for portraits.
Keep those cameras rolling and keep on click-in!
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21 responses to “Natural Light Photography Tutorial: Using Window Light Portrait for Stills and Video”
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What if I need to photograph people in an office, but also need the outside of the building to be distinguishable?
The movement is overly distracting and disturbs your information flow. Use it sparingly and it is a wonderful tool. I was a location film maker for 25+ years …….
I can see dust on the sensor of the vid cam ^^
good
amazing
Love u Man… U xplain every thing in a easy n simple way !
Very nice video! thanks
really great job on this one.
Amazing! Really inspiring! 🙂 Learned a lot in 1 day!
hey jay nice work. i would like your thoughts on the 7d. i would like to do professional photography i love the 7d i would like to have it for video and photography but people say
get the 5d 2 but i see from this video it looks like a good camera for photography. also will an old 5d classic be good for portraits . thank you for your time in advance for responding
very educational tutorial, but Nic's software touch-up spoils it for me
Excellent video.
That camera, at the end. I could have had that! 🙂
one of the camera needs a sensor cleaning.. hahah
Could you give us the exif of the sample photos in the video please? I am specifically interested in the focal lengths..
Totally agree. It's like the ones who are slaves to the histogram or "proper" techniques. The point of this medium is to capture feeling, emotion, beauty, and story. Make the image look and feel right, don't worry about what the "proper" iris, shutter, etc is! There are many who are technical, but not very creative.
thanks for this information! great work!
We use the Glidecam XR-2000. Using a steady cam takes a little practice, but makes a big difference.
Hi buddies. I think Jay P Morgan just want to share both his skills and 'how-to-use' equipments. I'm sure he helps some people whom watching his videos. Just sharing how to respect….
what steady cam have you used filming this video?